hello, fractographers... some of you might remember me from the "good ol' days" as an artist with the stone soup group back in the 80s and 90s... i was wondering a few things yesterday: .1. does anyone happen to have archived a copy of my pars, specifically from 1601 to 1700? i have the earlier ones, but for some reason cannot find those... .2. does anyone know how to make fractint understand a newer nVidia video card, specifically in 1600x1200 mode? .3. on a related subject, does anyone know why i can't save a disk video of my creations in fractint 20.3? i'd like to push some out as far as 6000 x 4500, and i have the disk space and the processor to handle most of them... .4. FRMs are problematic, too... does anyone have a collection of FRMs from that time period, up to say 1997ish? those formulae must also have died in the great crash a few years ago (don't ask; i'm still grieving)... i'd be especially grateful for sylvie's and the REBs... i've tried chaos pro and it worked well for one of my old collection (one that didn't require an external FRM), but crashed badly on another (same one that when it worked, it didn't recreate correctly at all)... i've also looked at winfract 20.2, and it refuses to handle large images (among other issues)... i'm looking for as inexpensive an option as possible, as i'm broke trying to get my new photography business up and running... thanx, folks ;) 00 caren http://www.parkgallery.org
Caren K. Park wrote:
.2. does anyone know how to make fractint understand a newer nVidia video card, specifically in 1600x1200 mode?
What operating system are you using??
.4. FRMs are problematic, too... does anyone have a collection of FRMs from that time period, up to say 1997ish?
Have you looked through what is available in this latest updated collection that I have been taking care of: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/OrgForm.html
i've tried chaos pro and..... i've also looked at winfract 20.2....
I have not tried Paul's "ManPWin" for higher resolutions, but that might be an option: http://www.deleeuw.com.au/ As to the PAR files you are looking for, let me get the dust off a pile of backups and see what I can come up with. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
Caren,
.3. on a related subject, does anyone know why i can't save a disk video of my creations in fractint 20.3? i'd like to push some out as far as 6000 x 4500, and i have the disk space and the processor to handle most of them...
Do you get any sort of error message? Does the screen say Fractint is saving the file? I've tried this at 2048x2048 and 6000x4000 with the mandel type and had no problem. Also tried 2048x2048 and 6000x4500 with a formula type and had no problem. I don't know the effect of using an NTFS partition has on Fractint. Jonathan
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Jonathan Osuch wrote: (...)
I don't know the effect of using an NTFS partition has on Fractint.
I haven't read any recommendations for that combination, and FAT32 is good for two terabytes (with a lot of slack space and no sophisticated data structures, but still comparable to ancient mainframes).
On Fri, 7 May 2004, carenp wrote:
hello, fractographers... some of you might remember me from the "good ol' days" as an artist with the stone soup group back in the 80s and 90s...
i was wondering a few things yesterday:
.1. does anyone happen to have archived a copy of my pars, specifically from 1601 to 1700? i have the earlier ones, but for some reason cannot find those...
.2. does anyone know how to make fractint understand a newer nVidia video card, specifically in 1600x1200 mode?
Check their web site. If it's not there and it's not in your hardware BIOS (and you wouldn't be asking if it was), then you are probably limited to disk-video and batch-files.
.3. on a related subject, does anyone know why i can't save a disk video of my creations in fractint 20.3? i'd like to push some out as far as 6000 x 4500, and i have the disk space and the processor to handle most of them...
Unless you can make batch mode work, my guess would be that you are trying to use NTFS. You'll hav to read the helpfiles with windows to re-size your partition and make a FAT16 or FAT32 partition, which is something that I've never done with Windows alone, but I've done it with the utilities that came with my hard drive.
.4. FRMs are problematic, too... does anyone have a collection of FRMs from that time period, up to say 1997ish? those formulae must also have died in the great crash a few years ago (don't ask; i'm still grieving)... i'd be especially grateful for sylvie's and the REBs...
I'm planning on archiving mine on the web in a zipfile.
i've tried chaos pro and it worked well for one of my old collection (one that didn't require an external FRM), but crashed badly on another (same one that when it worked, it didn't recreate correctly at all)... i've also looked at winfract 20.2, and it refuses to handle large images (among other issues)...
i'm looking for as inexpensive an option as possible, as i'm broke trying to get my new photography business up and running...
Welcome to the world of open source. (...)
From: "SherLok Merfy" <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 2004, carenp wrote:
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.3. on a related subject, does anyone know why i can't save a disk
video of
my creations in fractint 20.3? i'd like to push some out as far as 6000 x 4500, and i have the disk space and the processor to handle most of them...
Unless you can make batch mode work, my guess would be that you are trying to use NTFS.
I'm curious as to how the file system used could affect the "disk video" mode? As I understand it that mode uses whatever virtual memory is available-- might be extended, expanded or disk raw memory. Does fractint use low-level r/w routines that might cause access violations on an NTFS volume if used for virtual memory? From XP, I tried running separate copies of fractint 20.3.1 on each of a FAT16 and an NTFS volume in disk video mode, both successfully. Of course, 1 trial doesn't mean much. What I don't understand is why it seems nearly impossible for most of us to use the VESA VBE modes from a DOS VM under one of the NT-flavored Windows. Those modes obviously exist since they can be run from fractint dual-booted from the DOS7.1 command line. Even if they didn't, surely a virtual graphics driver for the VM environment to emulate the modes by forwarding them to OpenGL or similar ought to be an easily available thing, right? Something that you could just put in config.nt that read something like "device=vbeemu.sys". It would be really nice to be able to run fractint (visibly) in the background of XP while doing something else instead of rebooting all the time.
You'll hav to read the helpfiles with windows to re-size your partition and make a FAT16 or FAT32 partition, which is something that I've never done with Windows alone, but I've done it with the utilities that came with my hard drive.
Things may have changed since I last tried to use the Windows utilities for that, but my experience was they were dangerous: the data on a resized partition was typically made inaccessible (ie. lost without a whole lot of sector editing work). I found PartitionMagic to work much more reliably for that-- resizes w/o data loss, prepares all flavors of Windows and Linux volumes and comes with a multi-boot utility. I think you can get a copy for about $30 USD on eBay. If you're really foolhardy/bored like I once was, you can possibly use a sector editor to byte-edit the MBR and either accomplish the same goal or else end up spending a lot more $/time for data recovery services.
Welcome to the world of open source. (...)
Well, I did try to use the open source utility "dosbox 0.61" to run fractint (dosbox.sourceforge.net) under XP, and it did actually render fractals with a few VESA VBE emulated modes and retain the keystroke shortcuts. It was quite slow though, and "disk video" generation failed about mid-file on the one case I tried. OTOH it definitely proves that VBE emulation is possible within a DOS box. Regards, Hiram
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